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Wisdom, Wonder, Women: Strong Females in Fantasy
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| Pierce, Tamora: Alanna: The First Adventure |
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Why do only boys get to be fighters? Alanna's twin brother gets to go learn how to be a warrior, while Alanna has to study to be a mage. But wait! They are twins, after all… |
| Lackey, Mercedes: The Lark and the Wren |
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Her mother is a barmaid and not as proper a lady as she should be. But does that make Rune less than a lady, too? Tormented by the lads and lasses of her rural village, when Rune makes a foolish bet to fiddle for the Skull-Hill Ghost her real troubles begin. She's impressed the ghost and been rewarded, but now she can never go home again.
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| Yolen, Jane: Sister Light, Sister Dark |
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A white-haired, thrice-orphaned child of prophecy, a twin sister who only appears in shadow, a land in turmoil in need of a ruler, and Jenna, the child who may become a goddess. |
| Anthony, Piers and Mercedes Lackey: If I Pay Thee Not in Gold |
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Two masters of fantasy join forces to tell the story of Xylina, a powerless young woman in a land where women reign and men are considered little better than slaves. Despite Xylina's powerful magic and great intelligence, she has a formidable enemy who will stop at nothing to keep her from prospering. |
| Hopkinson, Nalo: Brown Girl in the Ring |
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In the Toronto of the near future, there's no money, little food, and only the rich can get health care. A single mother still tied to her drug-addicted ex, Tony, Ti-Jeanne lives with her grandmother Gros-Jeanne, a Voudoun priestess. Although Ti-Jeanne is reluctant to get involved in her grandmother's magic, when Tony falls afoul of the local gang-lord, Ti-Jeanne is drawn into a web of magic and the supernatural that she cannot escape. |
| McKinley, Robin: Deerskin |
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Princess Lissar's mother was the most beautiful woman in the world. When she died, Lissar's father went mad with grief, finally deciding that the only woman worthy to replace his wife is his daughter. Fleeing to the woods with her faithful hound, Lissar learns much about survival and recovery.. |
| Kritzer, Naomi: Fires of the Faithful |
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The Old Way is forbidden, and the overbearing Fideli rule the world. When young Eliana, a violinist who enjoys the music of the Old Way, learns that the Fideli are in fact responsible for the war and famine that ravage the land, she flees her conservatory to see what changes can be made. |
| Levine, Gail Carson: The Two Princesses of Bamarre |
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In the kingdom of Bamarre, Meryl always had been the adventurous sister. When she is struck down by the Grey Death, however, her shy and timid sister Princess Addie sets out on a quest to find the cure. |
| DuPrau, Jeanne: City of Ember |
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It is always night in Ember, and now the lights are going out. Ember has flourished for 241 years, and is all the residents think exists. But when the lights start to flick, nobody seems too concerned… except for twelve-year-old Lina. When Lina finds an ancient document that appears to be directions for leaving the city, what will she and her friend Doon do? |
| Funke, Cornelia: Inkheart |
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What would you do if your books came alive? That's what happens to twelve-year-old Meggie, who learns that her father can read characters from books right off the page and into real life. Doesn't sound too bad, except that every time Mo reads someone out of a book, something else has to go in. When Meggie was three, her father read Capricorn and his evil henchmen out of the book Inkheart…and her mother disappeared. Can Meggie and her father rescue her mother and save their world from Capricorn and his men? |
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